Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-05-26
NOTES.

A cheap way to get fresh blood is to
buy eggs.
Feed young poultry of all kinds early
and late and often.
Have the shotgun handy to use on
crows, hawks and cats that eat spring
chickens.
Fowls will eat great deal of granu-
lated charcoal. As preventive of dis
ease it is invaluable.
Raise two or three guineas for alarms to
scare the crows and hawks. They also
make good night watchnlen.
Make the nests of sitting hens shallow,
so that when she steps on the eggs they
will roll to one side and not be broken.
Kittatinny blackberries and other vari-
cites liable to rust should be busted with
air-slaked lime just before they bios
som.
Asparagus shoots, too slender to sell,
should be cut and left on the ground.
Cut the bed clean until you cease cutting
altogether.
A Connecticut subscriber dustf buck
wheat flour on the currant bushes while
the dew is on, and successfully combats
the currant worm.
Tomatoes will do well planted between
the rows of early peas as a second crop.
The peas are out of the way before the
tomatoes require much of the ground.
Pick off strawberry blossoms from
your newly plants. Do not wait for
the bud to open, but pinch off the whole
blossom stem. A pair of scissors will do
the business.
To obtain the best success in butter
making, the temperature of the cream
should be neither too high nor too low
If too'high, the butter globules are broken
up, and if the temperature is too low the
globules will refuse to unite. Different
seasons of the year require different de-
grees of tenn perature within a moderate
raEge. If the cream is inclined to be
ropy, as is sometimes the case in cold
weather, or often the system of the COWS
has received sudden chill or chock, a
higher temperature would be required
and a slight dilution with water, that is
warm, so as to dissolve and wash but
the albuminous matter that adheres to the
fat gIobules, thus letting them face sc
that they can unite.
You will want some currants, for nc
garden is perfect without a row of cur.
rant bushes. Set one-year old plants OF
the old red Dutch variety, enrich the
ground, cultivate we'll and mulch, with
straw, and you will be surprised at the
size and quality of fruit. But watch for
the currant worm. Dust with powdered
hellebore when the bushes are wet with
dew. Fay's prolific is said to be more
productive, with punches five inches long
but l have had no experience With
it.
In answer to the query, which are the
most desirable twelve evergreen trees for
ornamental planting on small lawns IN
western New York and similar climates,
G. Ellwanger gave the following to the
horticultural meeting at Rochester last
winter: Small-leaved Hemlock, Colorado
Blue Spruce, Glaucous Spruce, Nordman's
Spruce, Venusta Juniper, Reeves Juni-
per, Stone Pine, Erect Yew, Vsriegated
Yew, Golden Arbor-Vitae and ayramidal
arbor-vite.
The statement that the best time to
feed turnips or cabbages to COWS is just
after they are MIXED consists with gen
eral experience of dairymen, who find
these crops useful for fodder and con
veniently raised. To feed them immedi-
ately before milking is still better, as il
gives b1Ll0 1OE Tic OuOE 10 SSCdpS
the skin and bowels before the next milk
ing. The odor is produced by COM
pound of which sulphuretted hydrogen is
a part, and this gas which imparts the
odor is extremely volatile and quickly
escapes in the Precipitation from the skin
and Ill the expired breath from the lungs.
But mangels are grown as easily as beets,
and are free from this objection; then
why not raise these roots instead of tur-
nips? Only one reason presents itself,
namely, that turnips have very short
season and may be raised in a cornfeld
by sowing the seed Immediately after the
last working.
To keep crows and hens from pulling
corn, soak in water few hours the seed;
draw off the water, mix plaster with it
enough to coat it; plant before it drys,
and the birds pull only few samples.
Cover the corn lightly on cool, moist soil
as plaster is a poor conductor of heat.